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New to Penguin Modern Classics, Calvino's first novel Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs...

"The Adventures of Augie March is the Great American Novel. Search no further" - Martin Amis Augie March is a penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up during the Great...

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he reveals the extraordinary lives of the Russian, Polish and Jewish...

Nabokov's 'other' great love story, following an extraordinary relationship across decades and continents Written in mischievous and magically flowing prose, Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from...

In one of the wittiest novels of them all, Nancy Mitford casts a finely gauged net to capture perfectly the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in...

Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare, jagged stories in which people struggle with change and disintegration. Scission, Tim Winton's first collection of short fiction, contains spare,...

Winner of the Miles Franklin Award and recognised as one of the greatest works of Australian literature, Cloudstreet is Tim Winton's sprawling, comic epic about luck and love, fortitude and...

A murder mystery and a serious exploration of racism in the American South An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man....

A new edition to celebrate the 40th anniversary of first publication of Pynchon's classic book. Discover Thomas Pynchon's brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic. 'The greatest, wildest author of...

Already acclaimed as a classic, this is the lost masterpiece behind the major new film starring Kristin Scott Thomas and Michelle Williams **AS FEATURED IN HRH THE DUCHESS OF CORNWALL'S...

A brilliantly executed intellectual detective story from the author of international best seller The Name of the Rose. Three book editors, jaded by reading far too many crackpot manuscripts on...

Helen prepares her spare room for her friend Nicola, who is flying down from Sydney for a three-week visit. But this is no ordinary visit-Nicola has advanced cancer. She is...

THE SECOND INSPECTOR CHALLIS AND SERGEANT DESTRY NOVEL An unidentified man is fished out of the sea with an anchor strapped to his waist. And for Detective Inspector Hal Challis,...

A novel about family, belonging, and the agony of imagining the life you should have had, sparked by the disappearance of a four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl from the blueberry fields of...

Candice Fox has taken the Australian crime-writing world by storm in the last few years. Eden is the second novel in her award-winning crime series. Winner of the Ned Kelly...

The sensuous blockbuster novel by the beloved, bestselling author of The Pearl Thief. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR 'Impossible to put down' BETTER READING 'A sweeping wartime romantic thriller' HERALD SUN...

From the fields of Provence to the streets of wartime Paris, The Lavender Keeper is an extraordinary, moving story of action and adventure, heartbreak and passion, devotion and treachery from...

A gruesome case just got personal. DCI Jack Hawksworth returns in a gripping crime thriller where he must navigate the treacherous depths of one of London's most sinister black markets....

A gripping story of love and rivalry from the internationally bestselling author of The Lavender Keeper. MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR Charismatic womaniser Jack Bryant has the world at his feet,...

The heart-stopping new crime thriller in the Detective Jack Hawksworth series by blockbuster author Fiona McIntosh. Superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears...

A stylish reissue of the Booker Prize-winning, Golden Booker Prize-shortlisted classic- now with a new introduction by Elif Shafak Claudia Hampton - beautiful, famous, independent, dying. But she remains defiant...

How do you start again, after losing everything? Find out in the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling sensation! Anna had a dream life - according to everybody else. She lived...

Vintage classics presents Martin Amis' London Trilogy- Money, London Fields and The Information WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and...

A new Vintage Classics edition of Martin Amis's MONEY - 40 years since its first publication WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ANDREW O'HAGAN John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling...

'Hilarious, touching and hotly sublime' JULIA ARMFIELD SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2024 THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Delightfully confident . . . a total pleasure' TIMES 'Warm, witty and...

Elegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF...

This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of war - each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Hemingway's great...

THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER THE MILLION-COPY GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 'Radical and exciting' Jessie Burton 'Breathtaking' Barbara Kingsolver 'It changed how I thought about the...

'Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my mother liked to wrestle; it didn't matter what'...

The ultimate feminist dystopian novel. SISTERHOOD. SECRETS. SURVIVAL. Discover the haunting, heart-breaking post-apocalyptic TikTok sensation. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isolation in a cage. Above ground, a world...

Shortlised for the Miles Franklin and winner of the Age 2021 Book of the Year Award, the highly praised second novel from Robbie Arnott is now available in a beautiful...

This stylish paperback edition of Helen Garner's collected short fiction celebrates the work of one of Australia's most loved authors. These stories-that delve into the complexities of love and longing,...

A captivating and deeply personal novel from one of Australia's most respected authors. Athena and Dexter live a happy but insular life, bound by routine and the care of their...

Helen Garner's gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece-the novel that shines a light on a time...

The highly praised debut from Tasmanian author Robbie Arnott, now in a beautiful B-format edition. Released ahead of Arnott's second novel, coming mid-2020. A young man named Levi McAllister decides...

'The child is silent. For a while he too is silent. Then he speaks. 'Please believe me-please take it on faith-this is not a simple matter. The boy is without...

The international bestseller. Over three million copies sold worldwide. 'Charming and heartwarming...A delightful example of how love can be imperfect, messy-and utterly magical.' Dua Lipa Don Tillman is getting married....

One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak. It is 1939 and although Australia is about to go to war, it doesn't quite realise...

The bestselling author of The Shadow of the Wind takes us back to the shadowy streets of Barcelona and the world of the Sempere and Sons bookshop. Continuing the story...

Prequel to the bestselling The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game takes us to the turbulent Barcelona of the 1920s and the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. It's a spellbinding...

Barcelona 1945- young Daniel Sempere is taken to a fabulous secret library called the Cemetery of Forgotten Books where he is told he must 'adopt' a single book, promising to...

To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic caused a woman to swallow doubt. To be a hero's wife in times supposedly suited to the heroic...

Booker Shortlisted best seller Atonement in a beautiful hardback edition with silk ribbon and sewn binding. A perfect gift. On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony...

Apple TV + tie-in of the multi-million-copy No. 1 Sunday Times, No. 1 New York Times and No. 1 international bestseller and prizewinner THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER Soon to be an...

THE NIGHT CIRCUS meets LONELY CASTLE IN THE MIRROR- A Japanese bestseller about three students whose friendship is tested to the limit as they fight to compete in the drama...

The 8-million-copy worldwide and Sunday Times #1 bestseller and award-winner featuring the uncompromising, unconventional Elizabeth Zott THE MULTI-AWARD-WINNING MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER, now a major Apple TV series starring Brie Larson. A...

From the Number One bestselling author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, a gemlike collection of unforgettable short stories in which nothing is quite what it seems... Discover...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR 'Extraordinary' New York Times 'Remarkable' Observer 'Heartfelt' Guardian Theo Byrne is...